Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Singh, R.B. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences,
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing Asian Mega City Environment
  • Analysing Asia's mega-cities and mega-urban-region dynamics using Geopolis database
  • Future of Asian Mega Cities
  • Urban Water Risk in Asian Mega Cities
  • Urban Planning, Governance and Management Dealing with Climate Change in Indian Mega Cities
  • Japanese Experiences
  • Spatial changes in the socioeconomic aspects of the Tokyo metropolitan area after the 1980s
  • Urban heat islands in Tokyo
  • Osaka as the nation's second-largest mega city
  • distinctive trajectories of industrial, commercial and consumer city
  • Indian Experiences
  • Chennai: Questioning the sustainability of an emerging mega-city - economy, environment and governance
  • Local Action Planning for Pro-Poor Urban governance in the Southern Mega City of Chennai, India
  • Population Dynamics in Calcutta Metropolitan Region: Implications for Planning and Governance
  • Changing Environment, Physical Landscape and Emerging Heat Islands in Kolkata Metropolitan Region
  • Role of local level relative humidity on the development of urban heat island across the Delhi Metropolitan Region
  • Urban Political Ecology in megacities: The case of Delhi's waste water
  • Spatial Correlation of Changing Land Use, Surface Temperature (UHI) and NDVI in Delhi Using Landsat Satellite Images
  • Housing in Hyderabad
  • Nutritional Status of Men and Women in Mumbai: Is There Any Imbalance across Slums and Non-Slums
  • Chinese Experiences
  • Spatio-temporal evolution of urban structure in Shanghai"
  • The Population Distribution and Urban Development polices in Shanghai
  • Urban Expansion in the Yangtze River Delta in a High Economic Growth Period-A Comparison between Wuxi and Kunshan in Metropolitan Fringe of Shanghai
  • Urban restructuring of Beijing City after the reform and open policy
  • Changing Climate and Air Quality in the Fast-urbanization Pearl River Delta region of Southern China
  • Urban growth in a rapidly urbanised mega city –Wuhan, P.R.China
  • Other Asian Mega Cities Experiences
  • Singapore’s Global City Challenges: National Identity, Cosmopolitan Aspirations, Migrant Requirements Urban Development in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • Spatial Dynamics of the Automobile Industry in the Extended Bangkok Metropolitan Region
  • Jakarta Megacity (Jabodetabek): from City Development toward Urban Complex Development System.